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Birmingham?
by tomasphan 2mo ago
Birmingham?
- bpodgursky 2mo agoCan you be more precise? Like an actual area on the map. Because when I look at England's map of greenbelt areas [1] literally everything around Birmingham is protected. [1] https://www.cpre.org.uk/interactive-map-of-englands-green-belt-land/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23515607255&gbraid=0AAAAAD1iFi7LQzVFV0S8n9a_3px9wTHN_&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkOvTBhDgARIsAKUNyRs6TpZefzB-wleJewbfP_NcvLq8pxDbi3q035GaYvW5x1PWc_pCToMaAiqFEALw_wcB https://www.cpre.org.uk/interactive-map-of-englands-green-be...
- smallerize 2mo agoI think they were joking. In a literal sense, cities require green spaces for water management. Otherwise you end up like Chicago where they paved everything and flood constantly.
- tptacek 2mo agoI mean, not really, right? Permeability would help, but the first and second principal components of our flooding situation are the fact that we're built on a flat swamp, so water has no natural place to go, and we're built around an undersized combined sewer system that would be dazzlingly expensive to replace.
- pm215 2mo agoGreen belt areas mostly are not markers of ecologically important areas. They're a planning tool that largely exists to prevent urban sprawl. A lot of the green belt area is unremarkable commercial agricultural land.
- Gibbon1 2mo agoOnce you crush the red and blue pills and snort them you can't unsee the environmental damage of agriculture.